Keynote Speaker

Dr Camille Kandiko Howson from Imperial College London

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Dr Camille Kandiko Howson is Associate Professor of Education in the Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship (CHERS) at Imperial College London.  She is an international expert in higher education research with a focus on student engagement; student outcomes and learning gain; equality and social justice; and quality, performance and accountability.

She works to support high quality and high impact pedagogical research and collaborate with colleagues to conduct disciplinary-based educational research. Camille’s current research focuses on international and comparative higher education; the curriculum; using learning analytics to support the student experience; academic motivation, prestige and gender; student engagement, identity and belonging; and intersectionality in research design.

 She is passionate about making higher education more equitable and fair, supporting women and those underrepresented to access, succeed and work in academia. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

 

Summary of session: Education gain: within and beyond the metrics


Higher education is increasingly judged on outcomes. But in today’s digital world, waiting for students to finish their course to capture feedback is too late. How do we move beyond more (and more) surveys asking students what works and what can be improved? What data are we trying to capture, to what end? We know there is no single silver bullet metric to capture the outcomes of higher education and that learning goes beyond cognitive gain, also including behavioural and affective measures, and that robustly measuring learning gain requires multiple indicators. We also have confirmatory evidence that students learn different things in different subjects. This talk explores how we can make use of data we have on what students are gaining from their educational experience, and what this means for your students, your context, your career and the ability to influence others. We will conclude with a conversation on how measures of educational gain can challenge the status quo in higher education, including the relationship with assessment and feedback; quality assurance; and opportunities for personalised learning and engagement with graduate attributes.